I manage Made by Many’s New York office. Headquartered in London, Made by Many is an innovation company that helps global brands invent new digital products that result in stronger customer relationships and new revenue streams. As Managing Partner, I work closely with major brand clients on product strategy and business development, with an emphasis on the intersection of technology and media, and technology and retail.
For the past two years, I have served as a fellow for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Foundation for Emerging Issues and prior to that spent six years building and running a data visualization agency that was twice-named to the Inc. 500 list for revenues generated under my tenure while also being hailed as the "Small Agency of the Year" by AdAge in the southeast region in 2012. I also helped launch a Knight Foundation-backed text-to-video software company in 2013.
I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago and am a partner in my family's Willamette Valley-based pinot noir vineyard.

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Educational Background: MA from Oxford University in English Language & Literature, MA from Warwick University in Theater of the European Renaissance

Previous Work Experience: 26 years working in brand-building, marketing, and advertising

LB: Did you have any female role models / mentors while growing up?

CG: My mother. She’s Chinese, and phenomenal — always worked, instilled her own work ethic in me and my three sisters (‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother’ totally resonated!), and together with my father, played a very large part in making us who we all are today.

LB: Who has influenced you most?

CG: In the first instance, my parents. In the second instance, the many great bosses I’ve had over the years — with a special shout-out to Dave Trott, the then creative director of ad agency Gold Greenlees Trott, where I worked in the late 1980s, and to John Bartle, Nigel Bogle and John Hegarty of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, where I spent 16 amazing years.

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